Queer Messages Podcast

April 23, 2008

I’ve mentioned my friend Tony’s site before, Queer Messages. He runs it with Matt, and there are always some interesting things discussed on the site. Recently, there’s been a lot of political banter, probably because Tony is very pro-Hillary and Matt is very pro-Obama. They’re fun, very intelligent and great writers. They recently just started [...]

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Tillich on the Church

April 14, 2008

I’ve been reading (or rather, supposed to be reading) lots of Tillich for my Tillich course this spring. But rest assured that over the next two weeks I’ll be reading skimming a lot of Tillich to put together my journals for the class. But for my film class, we had to read some from Tillich’s [...]

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The New Christians: A Review

March 10, 2008

UPDATE: Book giveaway. I have 4 copies of “The New Christians” to send to the first four people who email me with a picture of Tony’s footwear of choice while he’s on the road.
Prior to reading The New Christians, I have always told everyone that Pete Rollins’s How (Not) to Speak of God has been [...]

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Natalie Stadnick on the Kingdom of God

February 21, 2008

This post is part of an ongoing guest blogger series on the kingdom of God.

Today, we will hear from Natalie Stadnick:
The Kingdom of God.
I didn’t grow up hearing that phrase bandied about. Ask about prevenient or sanctifying grace and I’ll give you a textbook answer – good little Methodist that I am. Sure, [...]

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Everything Must Change: A Review

February 20, 2008

This review will be appearing in Sharing the Practice, the journal put out by the Academy of Parish Clergy.
In his newest book, Everything Must Change, Brian McLaren tackles two questions: first, What are the biggest problems in the world and second, What does Jesus have to say about these global problems? Through the title alone, [...]

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C. Scott Andreas on the Kingdom of God

February 18, 2008

This post is part of an ongoing guest blogger series on the kingdom of God.

Today, we will hear from C. Scott Andreas:
Like Adam, I work in web design and development, looking for ways to wield (subvert?) the black arts of marketing and IT for the Kingdom. I’m one of those guys pounding away on a [...]

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A.K.M. Adam on the Kingdom of God

February 15, 2008

This post is part of an ongoing guest blogger series on the kingdom of God.

Today, we will hear from A.K.M. Adam:
It’s become a fad to distinguish a bad, imperialistic understanding of “the Kingdom of God” from a hip, open, “relational” understanding of “God’s Reign” — sometimes people even advance bogus arguments from the morphology of [...]

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Erin Raffety on the Kingdom of God

February 11, 2008

This post is part of an ongoing guest blogger series on the kingdom of God.

Today, we will hear from Erin Raffety:
My confession is that I’d never thought very deeply about the kingdom of God on earth until my feet were practically straddling the US-Mexico border in the summer of 2003. I remember this as one [...]

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Josh Brown on the Kingdom of God

February 7, 2008

This post is part of an ongoing guest blogger series on the kingdom of God.

Today, we will hear from Josh Brown:
I got “saved” at age 16. I got “called to ministry” at 18. And then spent the next 8 years working for mega-churches, going to seminary, and attending trendy conferences. I was being groomed to [...]

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Interview with Carrie Newcomer (and a CD Giveaway)

February 4, 2008

Though apparently my mom has one of her CDs at home, I just recently have become familiar with the music of Quaker singer/songwriter Carrie Newcomer. Carrie has a wonderful folk sound and has become a regular on my iTunes playlist as of late. Carrie is a poet, a theologian, a mystic and sings these folk [...]

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